[Reader-list] [Announcements] August Films @ Sarai

[Aarti Sethi]

Dear All,

A quick reminder that next week we will be screening two films, with  
post-screening discussions with the directors. The first, Lalit  
Vachani's new documentary on JANAM (The People's Theater Front),  
"Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes On)",  followed by Sridhar Rangayan's  
feature film on queer love in South-Asia,"Yours Emotionally!".

We hope many friends will make their way to Sarai :)

Warmly
Aarti

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Natak Jari Hai
A film by Lalit Vachani
(India; 2005; Colour & B/W; 84 min.)

6:00 P.M, Monday, 21 August 2006
Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room


What does it mean to perform socialist ‘agit-prop’ theatre in India  
in a globalized era of increasing intolerance and inequality?

Natak Jari Hai is a documentary about JANAM (The People’s Theatre  
Front), the little theatre group that never stopped performing in the  
face of dramatic political transformation and personal tragedy. The  
film explores the motivations and ideals of the JANAM actors and  
their vision of resistance and change as they perform their ‘People’s  
Theatre’ in diverse parts of India. It brings to life the world of  
socialist theatre through the words of JANAM’s members, and through a  
reflective portrayal of the group’s greatest tragedy - the  
assassination of its convenor Safdar Hashmi in 1989.

Credits:
Camera: Mrinal Desai
Sound: Asheesh Pandya
Additional editing: Sameera Jain
Editing, additional camera, production and direction: Lalit Vachani
A Wide Eye Film, 2005

We invite you to a screening of Natak Jari Hai, Lalit Vachani's new  
film. Lalit will be present for a discussion with the audience after  
the film.

[Lalit Vachani is a documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi and New  
York city. His previous documentary films include work on the star-  
system and social worlds within the Hindi commercial film industry  
(The Academy, 1995; The Starmaker, 1997) and on the indoctrination,  
ideology and the politics of Hindutva propagated by the Hindu  
fundamentalist organization, the RSS (The Boy in the Branch, 1993;  
The Men in the Tree, 2002). Some of the venues where his work has  
been screened are: The Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany,  
IDFA Amsterdam, One World Prague, FID Marseille, The Queens Museum of  
Art in New York, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and the World Social Forum in  
Mumbai.]


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Sarai-CSDS and the Nigah Media Collective invite you to a screening  
of Yours Emotionally!
A film by Sridhar Rangayan
(86 min.; English, UK / India, 2005)

6:30 P.M., Wednesday, 23 August 2006
Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room

"From the director of 'The Pink Mirror' comes this intoxicating queer  
journey through India… With a consistently surreal look, Yours  
Emotionally feels like a beautiful fever dream inspired by both avant- 
garde gay cinema and the tropes of Bollywood."

– Frameline Review


‘Yours Emotionally’ is a tribute to South Asian gay men who negotiate  
their same-sex-love identities within the stringent social,  
religious, cultural boundaries imposed by their communities. A trans- 
cultural drama spiced with love, romance & passions.

'Yours Emotionally!' follows Ravi, a gay British-Punjabi and his  
friend Paul on their visit to Shimoga. During their sojourn over a  
week in this idyllic town, they get a taste of gay life and its  
nuances there - finding a mixture of moribund traditions and shocking  
openness. Ravi falls in love passionately with a local lad Mani who  
is set to be married very soon to a girl. Ravi who cannot reconcile  
this, seeks the wisdom of an elderly gay couple Murthy and Anna who  
make him understand how sexuality operates within the closeted Indian  
community. Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations -  
presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally!  
unfolds a brightly painted canvas that defies stereotypes and  
explores contrasting values within Indian and Western gay sub-cultures.

Gautam Bhan (Nigah Media Collective), will moderate the post- 
screening discussion with the director.

Credits:
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
Produced by: Niranjan Kamatkar, Wise Thoughts, London
Co-produced by: Solaris Pictures, Mumbai
Executive Producer & Art Director: Saagar Gupta
Script: Niranjan Kamatkar & Sridhar Rangayan
Camera : Deepak Pandey
Editor : Nishant Radhakrishnan


[Sridhar Rangayan has written and directed award winning films like  
'Chakkad Bakkad Bumbe Bo' - a children film that won the Bronze Remi  
at WorldFest, Houston and 'The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)' - a film  
on drag queens that has screened at 56 international film festivals  
and won Best Film of the Festival awards in New York and France. He  
has also directed over 100 hours of television with programs like  
Pyar Ki Kashti Mein (Star One), Krisshna Arjun (Star Plus), Kagaar  
(Sahara) and Rishtey, Gubbare (Zee TV) to his credit. He won the RAPA  
award twice in 1999 and 2000 for Best Telefilm. ]









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